Thursday, November 8, 2012

Ecco the Dolpin - Genesis/Megadrive

Oceanic exploration at its finest. Eat that, Cousteau!

Oh shit. Look at that. 16-BIT CARTRIDGE? ECCO THE MOTHERFUCKING DOLPHIN?!
Yup. It's time for some more classy video game shit to dazzle and inspire! Now the placement of this post might at first blush seem arbitrary, what with the whole College - Part 1 post of this week teasing at a soon-to-be Part 2 coming along, but all will be revealed soon! In the meantime, just chill to some select oceanic chip music from your friendly SEGA MEGA DRIVE VIDEO ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM!


Ecco the Dolphin - Title Screen


This next piece brings a fucking cold loneliness to the proceedings. Of course, a passing familiarity with the game is at least recommended to get full enjoyment out of this...(OH SHIT! SHARK! OH SHIT! KILLER CRAB! OH SHIT! SHARK RIDING A KILLER CRAB!) In all seriousness, the whole soundtrack carries a sense of dread and desperation, which you'll hear repeated throughout.


Ecco the Dolphin - Ice Zone


As to this one, primal wilderness and some desperate determination thrown in the mix. Your dolphin is thrown back in time alone to survive in the prehistoric ocean. Yeah...He usually fails. CURSE YOU DEVIL-SEA-DRAGONS!


Ecco the Dolphin - Jurassic Beach


Now the last one is a straight-up creepy fuckfest of musical horror. It used to give me (rather intense) nightmares as a kid and probably surprised every last fucking one of the handful of people that managed to get to the related stage legitimately. Your (already slightly haunting) oceanic lone dolphin life simulator turns into a violent bio-mechanical alien body horror atrocity in a heartbeat. Childhoods are shattered. Grown men weep. Psyches are smashed. You get the idea.


Ecco the Dolphin - Welcome to the Machine
Yeah. Ignore the Pink Floyd reference.

NEON CRUSADER OUT.

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